Archives for January 19, 2018

‘Kentavius Street, DE, North Carolina St.: Fellow Wolfpack defensive end Bradley Chubb might be a top-five pick, but Street solidified himself as a draftable prospect with a solid week. His career numbers (19 tackles for loss, nine sacks) aren’t huge, but he’s an impressive athlete (sub 4.6-second 40 time, can squat 700 pounds, has a 40-inch vertical leap). Some team will surely fall in love with his potential. Street finished with 38 tackles and 3.5 sacks as a senior.’

‘The obvious takeaway for me was that the Bills will try their absolute hardest to pick a quarterback in the first round, and if they don’t, the past nine months have been one of the great draft smokescreens of our time.’

‘”It’s genius what he did because he was taking out a serious candidate to buy the team and then hope that he would get it at a bargain price,” Bon Jovi told Stern. “But we were as real as real got and, you know, I’m brokenhearted because I would have loved it and what we would’ve done in Western New York.’

‘Alex Smith has made the most of his opportunities against the AFC East. In his career, Smith is 7-1 in the regular season against the Patriots (2-0), Jets (3-1) and Dolphins (2-0). He’s thrown 18 touchdowns and no interceptions against the three teams. Smith does has one playoff loss to New England, but he’s been very good against Buffalo’s AFC East foes.’

‘Buffalo has two draft picks in the first round of the draft and they’re back-to-back, No. 21 and 22. If the Bills do want to select a QB, there’s a lot of ground between them and the Cleveland Browns who draft first.’

‘By the first week of July, Bon Jovi began the process of flipping public perception regarding his bid group’s intentions. Although neither he, nor Tanenbaum, nor Rogers (once he joined to make it a trio by July) ever publicly stated an intention to relocate the Bills eventually to somewhere in the Greater Toronto Area, it was well known within Toronto.’

‘”They were going to try and get me on a jet and fly me down to Louisville, which is about an hour flight (from Buffalo) if you go private,” Wood told co-host David Diehl and me Wednesday on SiriusXM NFL Radio. “There was a good shot that if (Garrett) would have come during the week before (the game) that I would have been able to make it in time.”‘

‘“In terms of a guy like (Hurst), in today’s NFL you’ve got to get after the quarterback and be disruptive and that’s what Maurice Hurst is,” Kiper said in an ESPN conference call Thursday afternoon. “For Buffalo, you don’t have Marcell Dareus anymore. You don’t have Kyle Williams (who) is a free agent, so I think that’s a need area for the Buffalo Bills.’

‘The rocker also confirmed that Donald Trump hired a guy to discredit Bon Jovi’s team. GQ published a report about the scheme. Bon Jovi says Trump orchestrated a campaign to eliminate him as a candidate by claiming he would move the team out of Buffalo.’

‘“Well I think Brian first of all comes from a background of where you cater and play to your strengths,” said Savage on the John Murphy Show. “When he got to Tuscaloosa last year, of course it was an adjustment. You go from the NFL to now college players. All told, I thought Brian did a nice job.”’